US president, first ever to attend ‘Jewish Olympics’ held every four years, tells American athletes he is ‘damn proud of them,’ validating one of world’s largest competitions

By MELANIE LIDMAN and TOI STAFF     14 July 2022, 11:21 pm   

US President Joe Biden, center, gives a thumbs up as he stands behind a glass partition with President Isaac Herzog, left, and Prime Minister Yair Lapid during the opening ceremonies of the Maccabiah Games at Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem, July 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

More than 10,000 athletes marched into Jerusalem’s Teddy Stadium Thursday night, waving flags of their home nations alongside Israel’s blue and white as the 21st edition of the Maccabiah international sporting competition kicked off with US President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Yair Lapid in attendance.

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Despite the president’s genuine affection for Israel, his itinerary sent out baleful signals.

By Melanie Phillips, INN

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(JNS) When dealing with politicians, it’s important always to pay less attention to what they say than what they actually do—and also to what they choose not to say, which may provide a clue to their actions.

When U.S. President Joe Biden arrived this week in Israel, he said he was proud that America’s relationship with Israel was “deeper and stronger, in my view, than it’s ever been” and told an Israeli interviewer that returning to Israel was “like going home.”

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Multistate Updates

By Robert B. Sklaroff, 

As in the past, articles dealing with the global issue of election integrity are provided prior to those impacting specific states, with major pieces emphasized with minimal analysis.

Courts squash Dems’ ‘Most Secure Election’ Lie: Swing States Didn’t Follow Their Own Laws In 2020

Mollie Hemingway recommended that state officials warn their localities to not follow Brandon’s executive order to transform government assistance centers into GOTV hubs because inter alia these GOTV hubs exceed federal authority under the Voting Rights Act.

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T. Belman.  Melanie Phillips and David Friedman discuss every thing you want them to discuss. The discussion is very informative. They also discuss the same issues that I raised in this article. Israel can say “no” to the US demands more often than not, and the sky won’t fall.

So long as the progress base of the Democrat Party dictates Biden’s foreign policy, those policies will continue to fail, to the detriment of regional security and stability. Op-ed.

By Caroline Glick, INN

(JNS) Ahead of U.S. President Joe Biden’s trip to Israel and Saudi Arabia, the president published an op-ed in The Washington Post, in which he placed his trip in the context of his overall Middle East policy. A few days later, Israel’s opposition leader, former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, made a brief statement on Biden’s then upcoming visit that spoke directly to the claims Biden made in his article. Taken together, the two communications explain why Biden’s visit was a failure before it even began—and what a successful policy looks like.
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T. Belman, As I have written before, what does confederation mean and what will be confederated?  It is my belief that the only lands to be “confederated” with Jordan are Areas A and Gaza and such lands won’t be a state but will simply territories over which Israel is sovereign and Jordan replaces the PA and Hamas as the administrator.

By Daniel Gordis

With President Biden’s visit to Israel and Saudi Arabia this week, the future of the Palestinians—an issue that to their frustration has mostly disappeared from the news—may return to the headlines once again.

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Analysis Nine Words Biden Uttered at Tel Aviv Airport Reveal His Policy on Israel-Palestine

In U.S. President Biden’s speech on the first day of his visit to Israel and the West Bank, he actually mentioned ‘peace’ once, but it seems nearly all those present would rather avoid it

By Noa Landau, HAARETZ

Over the years, welcoming ceremonies in Israel for American presidents usually include several motifs that are repeated, irrespective of who the hosts or guests are. Among such motifs – which are really akin to the red carpet and the playing of the American and Israeli national anthems – there is regular mention in the speeches of the “unbreakable” bond between the countries and the Bible and the Holocaust as well as technology and defense. But beyond that, they always feature the aspiration for peace, whether genuine or not.

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T. Belman. This report doesn’t  mention 6 Master Plans but does reference ” the approval of six outline construction plans for Arabs in Judea and Samaria”.  Are they the same things?  Remember gestures are gratuitous and can be rescinded in most cases. They are not contractual obligations.

Do more parts of the Land of Israel have to be given to the Palestinians, every time Uncle Sam visits, wondered the Ad Kan organization.

By Aryeh Savir, TPS

Several Israeli leaders have sounded the alarm following a series of “trust-building” gestures toward the Palestinian Authority (PA) that Defense Minister Benny Gantz approved, ahead of U.S. President Joe Biden’s visit to Israel this week.

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BY BRENDAN COLE, NEWSWEEK     ON 7/9/22

Christina Bobb, an attorney who has supported Donald Trump‘s legal challenge to overturn the 2020 election, has suggested a scenario in which the former president could be reinstated after the midterm elections in November.

Bobb told the conservative news outlet the Right Side Broadcasting Network (RSBN) what she thought could happen in states in which there was “evidence that Joe Biden cheated” in the election Trump and his allies have continuously claimed was fraudulent.

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By Jim Hoft, GATEWAY    July 13, 2022

On Tuesday, November 3rd President Trump was ahead of Joe Biden in the swing state of Michigan by over 100,000 votes hours after the polls closed.  This appeared to be another solid win for President Trump in Michigan with a greater margin than his 2016 victory. The ballot counting in Detroit, Michigan on election night took place at the TCF Center, formerly known as Cobo Hall.

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T. Belman. The next government can cancel the Master Plans. By law, in normal jurisdictions the public is given a chance at a public hearing to state their objections.  It takes a long time to approve Master Plans.  I think such requirement will apply to these Plans also as many people are effected.  In my experience as a lawyer dealing in land use, approving of Master Plans is a very long process.  I doubt if it is different in Area C

Regavim movement slams approval of 6 master plans for Arab construction in Area C which will cut off Jewish communities.

Israel National News  Jul 13, 2022, 7:40 PM GMT+3

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As part of a package of “good will gestures” Israel is planning to make to the Palestinian Authority in advance of the state visit of the US president, the Israeli government announced that it will approve six masterplans for Palestinian Arab settlements in Area C of Judea and Samaria, plans which the Regavim movement says will cut off Jewish communities.

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Interior Minister not concerned that Biden’s visit will harm the settlement enterprise, believes the government will continue to oppose establishment of consulate for Palestinian Arabs.

By  Yoni Kempinski, INN

“This is an important visit, it is always important when the President of the United States comes to Israel and overall the relations with the Democratic administration are good and former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett promoted them. For an entire year, no consulate [for Palestinian Arabs] was opened in Jerusalem, and with good reason. Bennett insisted on this with the backing of us all. There will be no construction freeze and we will continue to build as we did this past year,” said Shaked.

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By Ted Belman.

Stephen Flatlow, whose daughter Aliza was killed in a  Palestinian terror attack in 1995, writes, There’s a need for gestures before Biden arrives.. He reports that every time a USA president visits Israel, the State Department demands Israeli gestures but he is referring to the need for Palestinian gestures.

I keep asking myself why does the US and EU keep supporting the Two State Solution. What’s in it for them? Flatlow argues that they have given the Palestinians $10 Billion and the EU has likely done the same. Why? They really don’t care about the Palestinians nor do they care if peace is achieved. Why not defer to Israel to solve the problem and help her if needed.
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By Patricia McCarthy, AM THINKER

How to explain the Democrat party’s obsession with transgenderism, with shoving it down the throats of every American, from ages five and up?

It’s inexplicable.

Does every registered Democrat support confusing small children with gender identity indoctrination?  That can’t be true.

But school districts across the country are using books about all manner of sexual issues, including pornography, topics way beyond the grasp of small children.  And they are using those books without parents’ knowledge.  When parents discover these books and object, they are threatened.  Grooming, a word that once applied to other cultures or the worst sadists, grooming young children for sex with adults, now applies to public schools in America with the full support of American Democrats in Congress.
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by Peter Schweizer, GATESTONE

• Thanks to a Treasury Department “interpretation,” Americans can still own stock in companies that were placed on a blacklist by the Trump administration because of their direct ties to the Chinese military.
• Thanks to the Biden administration, the “China Initiative” at the Department of Justice to crack down on Chinese attempts to acquire or steal American technology has been discontinued.
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It’s no coincidence that Russia announced plans for a summit with Turkey and Iran, that will be held days after U.S. President Joe Biden visits Israel and Saudi Arabia to lay the cornerstone for regional defense cooperation

By Zvi Bar’el, HAARETZ

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi, last month in Turkmenistan.Credit: Mikhail Klimentyev /AP

A day before U.S. President Joe Biden was slated to land in Israel, Russia announced that its own president, Vladimir Putin, would hold a summit next week with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The timing of this statement was not accidental.

On Friday, Biden is slated to go to Jeddah, on the Red Sea coast, for another summit, attended by the leaders of the Gulf States, Egypt, Iraq and Jordan. This meeting is supposed to lay the cornerstone for regional defense cooperation against common threats to the alliance’s members.

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Interior Minister postpones entire construction approval agenda for next week after PMO removes construction for Jews from agenda.

ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS

Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked responded to reports that the Prime Minister’s Office has instructed to remove from the agenda of the Jerusalem District Committee the plan to build 2,000 housing units for Jewish residents in eastern Jerusalem and said that the plans would only be delayed by one week,

Shaked reportedly refused to remove the plans from the agenda and instead rejected the entire agenda for the week, which includes construction plans for both Jews and Arabs.
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By Daniel Greenfield  July 11, 2022

There’s no one quite so woke as a white twenty-something with no identity of his, her or xer own, only peer tastes and consumer products. The corporate fusion of consumerism and identity politics in which everyday brands and retailers from Dove to Walmart champion black nationalism or celebrate ‘pride’ happened because they have the same target demographic.

Identity politics, like brand consumerism, is identity for people without healthy identities. The political resurrection of black nationalism was ushered in by Barack Obama, who wrote an entire book about his neurotic sense of racial inauthenticity. Sexual identity politics is equally neurotic.
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“The defense minister from Blue and White/New Hope is actually giving new hope towards the establishment of a PA State,” said Gush Etzion Regional Council head Shlomo Ne’eman.

By TPS

Defense Minister Benny Gantz (right) and Acting Prime Minister Yair Lapid (Flash90/Hadas Parush)

Ahead of U.S. President Joe Biden’s arrival in Israel Wednesday, Prime Minister Yair Lapid announced a delay in the existing plan to build 2,000 housing units for Jewish residents of eastern Jerusalem.

The plan was reportedly scheduled for approval on Monday and Lapid postponed it ahead of the visit.

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T. Belman.  I am in the process of writing an article which links the increase in antisemitic attacks to Israel’s tolerance for Palestinian propaganda.

Israel must limit Palestinian speech which undermines Jews and Israel. 

Jews can no longer afford to tolerate the erasure of our identity, our ethnicity, our people and our nation. Op-ed.

By Karen Lehrman Bloch, INN   Jul 10, 2022,

(JNS) Last year, there were nearly 3,000 anti-Semitic attacks in the U.S., an increase of 34% over 2020. In New York City, attacks increased by 409%. This is mirrored in the daily incidents on campus involving blatantly anti-Israel professors, speakers, students and resolutions. And it entered politics with Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s introduction of a “Nakba” resolution in Congress, which sought to enshrine in law that Israel’s creation was a “catastrophe.”

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